Posts by Judge Mental

NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck

Re: Product placement 101

Would a tank survive ?

Houston

We've got a problem.

Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11

Re: They're joking, right?

Think yourself lucky, when I was a lad I had 1MB and was told to think myself lucky.

(and, I had to sleep in middle of t'road and get up before I went to bed.)

Enough for Windows

and what else ?

BOFH: Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom

The golden rule of BC.

Not if, but when.

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender

Re: warrant?

The Post Office had investigatory and prosecution powers. That turned out well.

BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them

My favourite

In the dim and distant past I worked in an office with separate heating and air con. If it was hot, the aircon was on at full blast because the heating was cranked up. If it was cold, the heating was on full heat because the air con was on. It took a long time before someone realised that setting the relevant temperatures above and below the desired range would work, it still required armed guards to stop some muppet from changing the set temperatures.

Capita's pension portal exposes civil servants' private data

Wishful thinking ?

It must be time to change the rules. If all suppliers were given a score for each contract every year and then compared in a league table that might keep them more honest.

Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth

Re: In other news...

I see what you did there.

Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat

Re: RFI?

Tanks and aircraft weren't mature in WW1, still they were used in their not fully developed state and look what happened.

AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions

Re: Obligatory xkcd

Seems like an invitation to me.

DVSA drives up online theory test contract value to £700M with no explanation

Re: Cash ratios

I prefer this icon.

You should be working for the government.

As you say it is simple to adapt a proven system, I thought that's what agile was all about.

1) The test itself is just content relevant to the country in question.

2) Access the test using an access portal appropriate to local criteria.

3) Charge DVSA an absolutely stonkingly exorbitant amount for their state of the art market leading cloud based, agile, AI driven, best in class, world beating solution.

Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that?

It made me laugh.

British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain

Fix Bayonets !

How will AI cope with getting up close and personal and when did Army Intelligence become AI ?

Cops put Microsoft Copilot in holding cell after controversial hallucination

Re: Can you give me a cite ?

Human Intelligence - here's the missing link.

Challenger at 40: The disaster that changed NASA

See also Florence Nightingale's graphics.

Re: Compulsory podcast plug

It's ok, until it isn't.

Oracle AI sailed the world on Royal Navy flagship via cloud-at-the-edge kit

Re: They're including AI in the title

Attack Incoming would make you want to know it really works right first time, every time.

Re: Cloud Act

Sadly, fewer than we used to have.

Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy

Re: Cloud computing for an airline?

Straighten up and fly right.

Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch

Re: Suggestions?

A guaranteed way is to let a user get their hands on it. Works every time.

UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go

Absolute Idiots

ESA calls cops as crims lift off 500 GB of files, say security black hole still open

Should be a vacuum gap.

In space there is no air, so no-one can hear you scream.

Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth

That's a pretty poor failure rate.

Move fast and break things.

Now I know what that means. Any other product failing that often will cause a firm to go bankrupt.

Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts

Re: Oh dear, how sad, never mind

Carry on !

BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI

Re: Why a TV licence?

When I lived in the US I stopped watching most TV it was that bad. PBS was ok, half their content was BBC generated.

US gov't launches 'Tech Force' to replace IT staff DOGE fired

Re: What could possibly go worng…?

I wish they were that clever.

VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA

Ransomware defined

Once Broadcom own anything.

Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report

Biter bit?

At least the Civil Service now know what it is like to be on the receiving end of a Capita project. Do you think Capita will get other contracts when the people that decide have had their pensions system trashed?

Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul

Don't

Just don't do it.

Aviation delays ease as airlines complete Airbus software rollback

Good planning.

It seems the airlines and Airbus planned this well. There's a four day window between Thanksgiving and Monday when fewer in USA are flying and everyone is stuffing themselves with Turkey or Black Friday shopping.

London councils probe cyber incident as shared IT systems knocked offline

Lesson learnt ?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/27/western_isles_ransomware_council/

Who's next ?

Just wait.

Another Hackneyed excuse will be along in a minute.

Lifeboat docks with Tiangong after cracked capsule triggers emergency rendezvous

Who is winning the space race?

You can't fault them on this. Yet another example of the west allowing the competition to get ahead of us.

NATO taps Google for air-gapped sovereign cloud

Air gapped cloud

More like a potential mushroom cloud.

UK military looking for tactical comms, systems suppliers in deal worth up to £9.6B

Signal anyone?

Allianz UK joins growing list of Clop’s Oracle E-Business Suite victims

I love my data, today and tomorrow.

" the attack compromised the data of its customers only, and there was no impact on LV's customers or systems at all."

https://www.lv.com Why are you in business if not to protect your customers ?

The customers data is theirs to protect, you cannot steal data without compromising systems.

Signed,

Ex LV and Allianz customer

IBM cutting several thousand jobs in latest layoffs

Re: How Sad -- Investment community take notice

Never, ever let the accountants run a business.

Flight simulator fans revive a classic Boeing 747 cockpit

Re: You know you would...

You can.

https://www.thespitfireexperience.com/

Also supporting RAFA.

Alaska Airlines grounded by mystery IT meltdown

Re: Systemic Failure Inherent in Human Organisations

Which is why passenger planes have more than one engine.

UK.gov vows to hack through regulation to get benefit from AI

What's new ?

50% of the civil service are already artificially intelligent.

IBM is just not into the 'spend megabucks on cloudy GPUs' thing, rents them instead

Can we build it ?

No, we won't !

Royal Navy sharpens claws on Wildcat choppers with anti-drone Martlet missiles

Cost

The real cost is how much blood are you prepared to spill to defend freedom.

UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch

< when it's impossible for the private sector to match the public sector on pensions >

Thank Gordon Brown and the Labour party for that one and now they're coming for your pensions again this year.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Another 550 employees set to leave the building

Re: Shortsighted

Because rocket science is easy.

Tesla on the wrong tracks with Fail Self Driving, Senators worry

Missing the obvious?

Cars have GPS and crossings don't move. Put the car into manual mode when approaching a crossing.

Politicos: 'There is a good strong case for government intervention' on JLR cyberattack

It gets worse.

Tata can fund support for it's suppliers out of petty cash. They've offshored thousands of jobs and still expect us to buy their cars and IT support ?

It's just poor IT security - TCS we're looking at you - https://www.tcs.com/what-we-do/services/cybersecurity

UK Home Office hikes tech consultant spend to £350M despite pledge to cut costs

Re: I wonder how much the Home Office pays

From experience the consultancy firms employ snake oil salesmen pretending selling inadequate solutions, these are remedied by another product they promote. They earn the big bucks while robbing the tax payer.

Datacenters near Heathrow seemingly stay up as substation fire closes airport

Third Runway needed.

This proves a third runway is needed, just not at Heathrow. Having an alternate location to take the load would have reduced the impact.